Downtown Healdsburg, home of 20-some wine tasting rooms, is poised to get another. Pair Tasting Bar will open at the end of November or early December.

But according to co-owner Matt Paiile, his project will offer three things to make it different from the ocean of others. First, while it won’t be a restaurant, the line-up will include substantial food pairings, in a food-friendly space including bistro tables.

Second, it’s not crowded in with so many of the other tasting rooms on The Plaza, but sits on East Street off Piper Street, north of the main shopping district.

Third, the concept includes monthly underground suppers, through Paiile’s new Healdsburg Social Club. As he waits to work through the red tape involved in the official opening of his tasting room, he is moving ahead with a dinner on Oct. 25.

Paiile, who also owns Epicurean Escape Catering in Healdsburg, said he plans to feature small production, limited release wines in a co-op format. The food will be his work, naturally, drawing on his culinary training at Sonoma Mission Inn, and in Hawaii at Spago, PacicoO’s and Manana Garage. There might also be recipes inspired by his travels through Alaska, Thailand and South America (he says he cooked wild piranha in the Amazon and guinea pigs in Peru, though Healdsburg customers likely won’t see those ingredients paired with their Pinots).

More recently, he worked at The Ritz-Carlton San Francisco, the former Medici Lounge in San Francisco, and the now-closed Manzanita Restaurant in Healdsburg.

Rounding out the team is Catarina Perez, who doesn’t have a cooking background but offers this valuable contribution: she owns the 900-square-foot Pair Tasting Bar space, which until recently was her Catalina’s Consignment clothing store.